Student charged with grade-fixing racket

Tyler Coyner, a 19-year-old student at University of Nevada has been charged with being the ringleader in a group that charged money for increasing classmates' grades at his former school, Pahrump Valley High School.

Coyner and 13 others are now facing charges for conspiracy, theft and computer intrusion. The student hacked the password for the Pahrump Valley High School's grade system and over his senior year charged other students money in exchange for a bump in their grades.

Additionally, Coyner bumped his own grades so high (to a 4.54 GPA) that he was the salutatorian at his graduation, an honor given to the student with the second highest GPA in the school.

When Coyner's dorm room was raided, the police found a stolen LCD TV and equipment for making fake driver's licenses.

Two other 19 year olds have been charged while the rest are minors. All of the minors are those who paid to have their grades changed.

HeHe please note im not condoning his actions, but what a legend, darn those pesky kids.

The driving licences i guess was so they could buy booze, although this guys not really used his talents for good, which when your young is an easy place to find yourself... but seriously you do have to give him an extra star for ingenuity, i hope they do offer him a job rather than sue him to the stone age...

Originally posted by pvhs student: there good kids that mean a bad decision leave them alone!!!!

Originally posted by pvsh student: your a dumb ass

The irony within these 2 posts is down right comical.

++++1 on that!

"Good kids mean bad decision" - just like gangbangers who sell heroin & crack right? Just good kids who "make" bad decisions is all. Are all criminals, which is exactly what this guy is, just "good kids who make bad decisions"?
What a moron.

HAHA, that sounds like a typical old school response to threat of intellect.... I did say sounds like... Personally I have no girlfriend at the mo, haha freedom, lol and who doesn't rub one out now and then, we all know the girls do :-p ... im my own experience idle hands, growing up in a small village with yes spots and not a lot to do got me into IT in the first place.

AND PERSONALLY i don't think I would change those years for anything, i expended and learn so much as a result, yes this one drifted to the dark side and is probably the sort, not to much unlike myself has to always learn his lessons the hard way to get them to sink in.

Again I don't condone what hes done, but I think the young man has real potential that's untapped...... Weather that's used for good or bad is his choice.